On Wed, 22 May 2002, Peter Bieringer wrote:

> for an update of an overview of my IPv6 course I ran into a
> "knowlegde hole" of myself, but some looking around with Google don't
> help me.
>
> Would be great if someone on the list is able to update me.
>
> How many (maintained) firewall code for *BSD is currently available?
> I found
>
> ipfilter/ipf
>  http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ipfilter/
>   IPv6: unknown

IPFilter has hooks for IPv6, and should be able to do it. I know that it
was working in OpenBSD 2.9 (after a couple files were modified), and with
some extra kernel modification, it should work in NetBSD 1.5.1. The hooks
may be working in FreeBSD, but you can't really do transparent bridging
with it (a limitation of the OS, not the firewall).

> ipfw
>  URL missing? Is this extra code?

IPFW is a pure FreeBSD firewall. with the KAME patches (now integrated in
to FreeBSD itself) there's ip6fw. same rule syntax, just for ipv6.

> pf
>  http://www.benzedrine.cx/pf.html
>   IPv6: yes

definately. pf works quite well, and is very impressive for how young it
is.

> 2 questions:
>
> a) what is "ipfw"
>
> b) any IPv6 status of ipfilter/ipf known?

i think i answered both of these above, but to just make sure.

ipfw is a native freebsd firewall.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-stable&format=html

ip6fw is similar.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ip6fw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.5-stable&format=html

to answer B, you'd have to try it. the hooks are there, it *should* work
in NetBSD and FreeBSD. There's some support under OpenBSD, but it's not
longer part of the "true" distrobution at http://www.openbsd.org.

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